YouTuber powers up 30,000 W light bulb so hot it melts aluminum
While most people are afraid of messing with electricity, YouTuber styropyro is a different breed — building anything from high-power lasers to Tesla coils. In his most recent video, he pushed a powerful 24,000 W (24 kW) incandescent light bulb past its rating, all the way up to 30,000 W.
At about 6,500 W, the thick tungsten filament was glowing so bright that his entire workshop was lit up. Pushed to 30,000 W in the open, the light bulb effortlessly lit up the area beyond a 200-yard radius, like a mini sun.
Using an aluminum sheet as a reflector to guide the light from the light bulb to one direction, it generated so much heat that bringing items like newspaper and cardboard close caused them to catch fire. By cranking it up to 30,000 W, he was able to burn things by bringing them close even without the reflector.
While the sheer brightness of the bulb and the heat it generated were impressive, the climax of the video came during the burn experiments with the aluminum reflector, and the reflector itself started melting — serving as testament to the extreme heat the light bulb was giving off.
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styropyro (linked above)
